Star Citizen – Update 1.1.2 Now Live
The hardworking devs over at Cloud Imperium Games have released update 1.1.2 for the massively popular Star Citizen. Today’s update includes a lot of changes to many of the .pak files, so the download will be big – 20.8GB big. You can check out the full patch notes at the end of the post, but […]
Quick News – The Round Up
Without much ado, here are some recent news snippets, announcements, and releases you should give a look. War Thunder – Victory Day Update Gaijin Entertainment has launched the “Weapons of Victory” update for War Thunder, their WWII MMO. If you’re part of the nine million player base currently involved in War Thunder, or if you’re […]
Digital Combat Simulator (DCS) – April News Update
Eagle Dynamics, the developers behind Digital Combat Simulator World (DCS World), released a newsletter today showing off and discussing some content that will hopefully be making its way into the game later this year. Although plenty DCS news made its way into the newsletter, a surprising amount of DCS World 2 information was teased. DCS […]
IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad Patch + Steam Keys
1C Game Studios and 777 Studios have announced that update 1.011, a major update for IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad, is now available to download and launch. You can check out the most recent dev blog (#95) here, which briefly touches on update 1.011. The update brings with it a new aircraft and map, as […]
Valve Allows Users To Sell Content
Yesterday, Valve announced that Skyrim would be the first game that allowed mod makers to publish and sell their own content through Steam. As you might expect, this news was greeted with a hurrah of happiness; however, after details of the deal emerged, a somewhat more hesitant Internet began to weigh in on the issue. If […]
Kerbal Space Program – Launching April 27
Developer Squad has announced that Kerbal Space Program (KSP) will be leaving beta and launching version 1.0 in just under a week. The popular space sim/sandbox, Kerbal Space Program (KSP), has been in public development since 2011, and after a successful release on Steam’s early access program, which helped to create a legion of fans, […]
Week in Review and the Battlefront Reveal
A number of new hardware announcements went out this week, everything from ASUS’ “Console-inspired Gaming PC” to Sony’s 2 TB Thunderbolt Hard Drives. While NVIDIA, on the software front, released its latest “Game Ready” GeForce 350.12 WHQL drivers that promise a ton of optimizations for the recently released PC version of Grand Theft Auto V. […]
ArmA 3 Marksmen – Review
If you’ve been checking SimHQ regularly then you’ll be familiar with our coverage of ArmA 3 Marksmen. Now that the long awaited DLC is finally out, it’s time to take a practical look at all the hype. First, I’ll take a look at the free features, and then we’ll examine the paid features of the […]
Order of Battle: Pacific – Coming April 30th to PC
Slitherine Group, the popular tabletop and video game creators, known for their wargames, have announced today that Order of Battle: Pacific will be coming to PC and Steam on April 30th, 2015. Set during the always popular, and always dramatic, World War II era, Order of Battle: Pacific “features playable campaigns for both the US-led Allies and […]
ArmA 3 DLC – Marksmen Developer Diaries pt. 2
Bohemia Interactive has released the second part of their Developer Diaries which aims to give a bit more background information on their Marksmen DLC for ArmA3. Check out our look at the first diary right here. The newest diary takes a look at the new showcase scenarios, training courses, firing drills, virtual garage, the new End […]
Book Review: William Gibson – The Peripheral
Do you enjoy games where you can create an avatar and then roam a virtual world, carrying out missions, fulfilling quests and saving damsels or dudes in distress? OK, now imagine the possibilities if the avatar you created existed in the real world, not a virtual world. This is the premise behind Cyberpunk godfather William Gibson’s newest […]
DayZ update 0.55 – What’s confirmed
Thanks to some industrious DayZ community members, we now have a better look at what update 0.55 will be bringing to the table. Early today, Brian Hicks tweeted: Quarterly Status Report will go live with 0.55 Stable, just a matter of grinding out the rough spots. — Brian Hicks (@Hicks_206 So, you can also expect […]